During this period, the MGNREGS made a big impact in two new areas that will prove to be of great significance in developing the villages of UP in the coming years. (Representative image) By Manoj Kumar Singh The year 2020 has been a difficult one for India. The Covid-19 pandemic not only posed an acute
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Delhi is seeing new highs when it comes to Covid cases. While a lockdown in Maharashtra increasingly looks a certainty, one in Delhi cannot be ruled out either. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that he is not in favour of a lockdown but if the city’s hospital infrastructure collapses, he will have no option
The government’s incentive to step in and bail out depositors when banks fail is clear from past experience. By Anusha Chari & Amiyatosh Purnanandam The failure of the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC) in September 2019 shone a light on the limitations of India’s deposit insurance system. With over Rs 11,000 crore in deposits,
If indeed India is reeling under highly-infective strains in circulation, this has serious implications for the country’s vaccination efforts. If the Covid-19 surge in the national capital, and likely elsewhere, is indeed linked to higher infectivity of mutant SARS CoV-2 strains in circulation—AIIMS director Randeep Guleria seems to sugges this—it is unfortunate that the Union
The microbiome’s role in growth and nutrition could thus be of seminal value. Representative Image In 2019, across the world, 144 million children under the age of 5 were stunted and 47 million suffered from wasting, as per Unicef data. The situation in India has seen some improvement over the years; even then, 19.8 million